Tapio Kulmala

Try clicking anywhere outside the video to release the mouse and keyboard from flash. - Byron McCollum

That didn't help. I found another way already. I had to click the "stop" button on the smaller preview picture. - Tapio Kulmala

Remember that velocity is just a number that provides information for the team to understand and improve it’s process. Forget that you’re tracking it and focus on the entire Value Stream and on what’s really value-added to get things into production. Anything else is just waste. If it’s not done, it’s not done. Accept it, move on, and don’t overcomplicate, because it will only add noise and mask what could have been important information to the team. - Tapio Kulmala

In today’s corporate parlance, we become adept at a reactive form of decision making as opposed to being proactive, or creative, in our planned path forward. As skilled problem solvers, we carry around a huge problem solving hammer and then understandably see every situation as a nail. And when our hammer will not effectively ‘resolve’ the nail in front of us, we mistakenly believe that “what we need here is a bigger hammer.” For those of you who can relate to this approach and may have been nodding your head, you know better than anyone that it becomes a self-perpetuating cycle where the bigger hammer always encounters a bigger nail, which then requires a bigger hammer, etc. When we perceive that problems being solved will result in a greater possibility for our efforts, for our product, or for our customer, we have bought into our own belief that fighting fires is the same as preventing them. - Tapio Kulmala

Can California residents pay their taxes with IOUs now? I mean, it would only be fair right? The same arguments apply. Expenses exceed revenues for the individual consumer, just like the state. So why can the state pay its bills with IOUs but individuals can't pay the state with IOUs? - Tapio Kulmala via Bookmarklet

If extraterrestrial civilizations are monitoring our TV broadcasts, then this is what they are currently watching. - Tapio Kulmala via Bookmarklet

"Well," she said confidently, "I discovered that Control-C makes the % prompt come up quicker!" - Tapio Kulmala via Bookmarklet